Committees

Organizing Committee

Prof. Javier LLorca

Professor & Scientific Director

IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain

Prof. Jaime Dominguez

Professor

ETSI University of Seville

Prof. Ming Dao

Principal Investigator & Director

Nanomechanics Lab, MIT, USA

Prof. Lei Lu

Professor

Institute of Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Prof. Nitin Padture

Professor

Brown University, USA

Prof. CWEE TECK LIM

Professor

National University of Singapore

Session Organizers

Session 1. Artificial Intelligence in materials research

Prof. Markus Buehler (MIT), Prof. Vanessa Evers (University of Twente), Prof. George Karniadakis (Brown University) and Prof. Ju Li (MIT)

Session 2. Materials for a sustainable planet

Prof. Nitin Padture (Brown University), Prof. Namjoon Cho (Nanyang Technological University), and Prof. Chiara Daraio (Calltech)

Session 3. Science, Innovation and Society

Prof. Javier LLorca (IMDEA Materials Institute and Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Session 4. Mechanics of materials across scales

Prof. Lei Lu (Shenyang Institute of Metals Research), Prof. Jaime Domínguez (University of Seville) and Prof. Javier LLorca (IMDEA Materials Institute and Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Session 5. Bioengineering and Human Health

Prof. C. T. Lim (National University of Singapore), Prof. M. Dao (MIT) and Prof. Pierre Buffet (Institute Pasteur)

International Advisory Board​

Co-Chairs: Prof. Ares Rosakis and

Prof. Pranesh Aswath, Provost, Texas State University, USA

Prof. Eduard Arzt, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany

Prof. Markus Buehler, MIT, USA

Dr. Dedric Carter, Vice Chancellor, Univ. North Caroline, USA

Prof. Namjoon CHO, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. Insuk Choi, Seoul National University, Korea

Dr. Nigel Croft, Former Chairman, ISO Technical Coordination Group, ISO, Geneva

Prof. Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology, USA

Prof. Tejal Desai, Dean of Engineering, Brown University, USA

Prof. Julia Greer, California Institute of Technology, USA

Prof. Antonios Giannakopoulos, Technical University of Athens, Greece

Mr. Ian Glasner, HSBC Bank, London, UK

Prof. Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Prof. Huajian Gao, Tsinghua University, China

Prof. Antoine Jerusalem, Oxford University, UK

Prof. J. T. M. de Hosson. University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Prof. K Jimmy Hsia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, USA

Prof. George Karniadakis, Brown University, USA

Prof Roger Kamm, MIT, USA

Prof. Ju Li, MIT, USA

Prof. Ke Lu, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, China

Prof. Andreas Mortensen, EPFL, Switzerland

Prof. R.L. Narayan, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Mr. Krishnan Narayanan, President, Itihaasa, Bengaluru, India

Prof. Alan Needleman, Texas A & M University, USA

Prof. Takeshi Ogawa, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Prof. Anamika Prasad, Florida International University, USA

Prof. Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mr. R.C.M. Reddy, CEO, SchoolNet India Ltd., New Delhi, India

Prof. Zhiwei Shan, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Prof. Yu-Lin Shen, University of New Mexico, USA

Prof. Christopher Schuh, Northwestern University, USA

Prof. T. A. Venkatesh, Stony Brook University, USA

Prof. Sulin Zhang, Penn State University, USA

Prof. Wei Yang, Zhejiang University, China